girls:
1.2k births since 1880
#4531 (21st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1986
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1880
#6543 (15th percentile)
The name Alla is the #6,543 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,197 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 15.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,531 (20.7% percentile) for all time with 1,187 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1986.
Alla has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1986 for boys). Birth data for Alla is available in 108 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (107 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alla reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #583) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 71 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alla ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alla reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #705) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alla".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Alla", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alaa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alaa..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Alla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.5% confident that Alla is pronounced as AH-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-luh, at 34.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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